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Doc: Consult neurologist over conflicting opinions

Dr. Keith RoachMarch 5, 2019 GMT

Dear Dr. Roach: I have weakness, numbness and the feeling of pins and needles in my hands, legs and feet. I have been diagnosed with both Sjogren's syndrome and fibromyalgia. I was working full time as a library assistant when my legs and knees collapsed a few times.

No stethoscope for pain: Scientists seek real way to measure

By LAURAN NEERGAARDJanuary 10, 2019 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8?

Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia...

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